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NEWS

Disney Taps Solar Power With Mickey

Mouse PV Project

It’s one small step toward Tomorrowland.

Mickey Mouse is getting in on the solar boom. In the past year a new solar farm has sprung up right outside the gates of Disney World and Epcot Center. Duke EnergyDUK +0.14% built the 20-acre installation which features 48,000 photovoltaic panels arranged to look like the head of that iconic mouse. Equivalent in size to about 1,000 residential solar systems, the panels will generate peak output of about 5 megawatts.

(For a neat time-lapse view of the site’s transformation from swampy forest into solar mouse, check out Nearmap.com.)

Duke’s deal isn’t directly with Walt DisneyDIS -0.16% but with the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which manages utilities for four theme parks and 40,000 hotel rooms in the area. Reedy Creek has agreed to buy the power from Duke under a 15-year agreement. It’s a small part of Duke’s plan to build 500 mw of solar by 2024. Even if Duke meets that goal, solar would still be a small portion of its current 9,000 megawatts of coal and gas-fired generation portfolio.

And the project will generate only a mouse-sized portion of the power used by Disney’s parks. Even in sunny Florida, photovoltaic panels have a capacity factor of about 24% — that is, over the average 24-hour period there will be less than 6 hours when the installation is churning out its maximum 5 megawatts of power. The implication is that the Mickey Mouse solar project will generate an average of 1,200 kilowatts of around-the-clock power, equating to about 10.5 million kilowatt-hours per year.

The cheapest utility-scale solar PPA’s sell power for about 4 cent per kwh. Assuming that Reedy Creek negotiated something in that range with Duke, it will pay about $500,000 a year for the juice from that first solar mouse. That’s probably not even enough to keep the coasters running at Space Mountain. In 2015 the Reedy Creek Improvement District reported annual electricity purchases of about $84 million.

Many Australians will be facing increased electricity prices from today – both residential customers and businesses in some instances.

In South Australia, the vast majority of residential electricity customers will be facing price hikes of between $117 and $260 a year.

In New South Wales, businesses and households across the state will be slugged on average an extra $200 annually as two major retailer lift their prices an average of 10 and 11 per cent respectively .

The hike in New South Wales is reported to be due to the increasing wholesale cost of electricity; driven in part by less spare capacity as a result of the impact of energy-hungry Queensland liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants.

In Tasmania, the hip-pocket damage isn’t so pronounced, with an annual average increase of $60 expected; primarily due to higher Victorian wholesale contract prices. On the bright side, solar households will also receive a 21% higher solar feed in tariff from today.

Regional Queensland hasn’t made it into the new financial year unscathed either. The Queensland Competition Authority announced in late May that a typical residential bill will rise by 2.8%, and typical small business customers will be slugged with a very unwelcome increase of 11.2%.

The news may act as a trigger for those still contemplating going solar to make their move – and perhaps giving further consideration to also acquiring a home battery system in order to increase their energy independence.

It’s certainly a good time to buy a solar power system – substantial government incentives are still available; however, these will be reduced at the end of this year and a rush may occur prior.

Solar may also be more attractive to small businesses from today. As we mentioned last month, most items purchased for a business to a value of $20,000 (per instance) are immediately 100 per cent tax deductible under accelerated depreciation.

The accelerated depreciation incentive was previously only available to businesses with a turnover of $2 million or less. From today, the instant asset write-off scheme will be extended to businesses with a turnover of up to $10 million.

Businesses considering going solar based on this incentive should first check with their accountants to ensure they will be eligible for it.